单词 | unsaint |
释义 | unsaintv. transitive. To deprive of saintly character or status. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > discanonization > perform discanonization [verb (transitive)] unsaint1572 discanonize1600 uncanonize1607 dissaint1612 1572 C. Carlile Disc. Peter f. 29 Thomas Becket, whom King Henry dyd vnsainte, and disgrade. 1594 Zepheria xiv. sig. C3v No neuer shall that face..Emblemisht be, defaced or unsaynted, Till death shall blot it. 1612 T. James Treat. Corruption Script. (new ed.) iv. 51 The Master of the sacred Palace hath vnsainted him. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 117 Satans scope in accusing the Christian,..is to unsaint him, and perswade him he is but an hypocrite. 1701 J. Howe Some Consideration Pref. Enq. 29 Power..to saint themselves, and unsaint all other men, at their own pleasure. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 123 That saint's bones being..burnt, and unsainted, by the powers in being. 1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 179 Most assuredly they ought to be unsainted! 1870 Temple-Bar Mag. 29 186 Young women..mutter in tender tremulous voices, which..might unsaint an anchorite. Derivatives unˈsainted adj.1 ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > discanonization > [adjective] unsainted1851 1851 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba II. vi. 172 I marvelled how of a sudden I had become such an unsainted lion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < v.1572 |
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